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bagarre BA-guh-ray noun a small fight; a small battle 1983The Nonborn KingAnd I'm drained for the next day or so after putting on one of my better performances; so three weeks of a progress—not to mention the Geroniah dustup and a small bagarre we had with a Firvulag raiding party around Bardelaskwell…Labels: Julian May
whigmaleerie whig-muh-LIR-ee noun a whim; a strange or rare object 1918Mr. StandfastI don't say that there's not plenty of riff-raff—the pint-and-a-dram gentry and the soft-heads that are aye reading bits of newspapers, and muddlin' their wits with foreign whigmaleeries.1920All-Wool Morrison'Do ye let whigmaleeries flimmer in yer noddle at a time like this?'1994Diamond MaskWould you like to stop at one of the shops and look over the whigmaleeries?Labels: Holman Day, John Buchan, Julian May
renitent RE-nuh-tuhnt adjective stubborn resistance to pressure; resistant to persuasion; lacking pliancy 1987The Urth of the New Sun...I could see the renitent surface under my feet…1992Jack The BodilessOne intuits that the potential for metapsychic calamity still lurks within the Mind of this highly renitent people.'Labels: Gene Wolfe, Julian May
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